Giving Child Development Books Away

2001-02-05 Thread Mike Bergmire
Hi Tipsters, The retirement cleaning continues. Todays books that are looking for a new home are: Gesell, Ilg, Ames & Rodell Infant & Child in the Culture of Today Sears, Maccoby & Levin Patterns of Child Rearing Maccoby Social Development: Psycho

Re: Policy to forward TIPS posts?

2001-02-05 Thread David Wheeler
Since Miguel specifically mentioned my signature file, I thought I would explain my logic. My knowledge of the copyright laws is a bit out of date; so, some of the logic might be based on assumptions that have changed because of court rulings. 1. Something which made available to the public i

Re: More on myelin

2001-02-05 Thread David Wheeler
Stephen, Excellent description. The way I like to say this is that myelin is essentially the cell membrane of the glial cell with all of the cytoplasm squeezed out of it. Myelin is not made by the glial cells, it IS the cell membrane of the glial cells. -David Stephen Black wrote: > ...sni

Re: Policy to forward TIPS posts?

2001-02-05 Thread Patrick Cabe
David wrote: > Since Miguel specifically mentioned my signature file, I thought I would > explain my logic. My knowledge of the copyright laws is a bit out of > date; so, some of the logic might be based on assumptions that have > changed because of court rulings. > > 1. Something which made

Giving Psychology of Learning Books Away

2001-02-05 Thread Mike Bergmire
Hi Tipsters, The following psychology of learning books are looking for a new home: C. H. Patterson Foundations for a Theory of Instruction & Educational Psychology B. R. Bugelski The Psychology of Learning Applied to Teaching B. Schwartz

Harris debate

2001-02-05 Thread Stephen Black
Before this interesting thread dies down, I have a few things to reply to. First, Robin Rosenberg said: [Harris's] wholesale discounting of family environment is not borne out by the data. For example, Bouchard's study of twins found that social closeness (the desire for intimacy with others) an

Giving Away Statistics and Research Methodology Books

2001-02-05 Thread Mike Bergmire
Hi Tipsters, I'm hesitant with today's offer. I don't know if old stat and RM books retain their value or not. At any rate, if these books are of no value just hit the Delete button very quickly (don't flame me in a public or private message) and watch for future lists of books that seem to hav

senior test

2001-02-05 Thread Gerald Henkel-Johnson
I'm in charge of finding a comprehensive psychology major senior exam that can satisfy regional accreditation requirements for departmental assessment. Consequently, the test results must be able to be broken down into subareas, so as to provide constructive departmental feedback. Perhaps it wou

Re: senior test

2001-02-05 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:51:46 -0600 Gerald Henkel-Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in charge of finding a comprehensive psychology major senior exam > that can satisfy regional accreditation requirements for departmental > assessment. Consequently, the test results must be able to be br

Giving away psych texts: an alternative

2001-02-05 Thread Pollak, Edward
I'm sorry if this has been brought up before but rather than giving psych books to other professor-types there are more philanthropic possibilities. I once had a local high school take a fair number of psych books off our hands. On other occasions I've received requests for such books from univer

Grading Scheme

2001-02-05 Thread Jean Choi
I'm teaching a 4th-year seminar course in which students make presentations about their research project several times throughout the term (at various stages of their project). Although I'll be grading for specific content, I'd also like to include more general presentation skills (such as cohere